Well, I’m sorry, but that’s a tactic that wouldn’t work with me – I don’t believe kindness and mugging go hand in hand.

A national mugging is taking place and I’ve yet to hear of a mugger offering their victim a cup of coffee and a cookie.

Several years a go I was approached by a panhandler asking for change, I had around a dollar or so in change and offered it to him, then to be told that wasn’t enough.

I guess it was the tone or the attitude but I didn’t make any apology and told him that was as good as it gets and put the change back in my pocket intending to move on.

At that point he produced one of those can openers I’ ve heard people refer to as a “church key” – not much of weapon and I couldn’t help but laugh.

I guess that angered him or wounded his pride such as it may have been and he took a swing at me with it – long story short in the end he lost the change I would have given him and the church key.

That doesn’t make me an expert on muggers but it does serve as a personal point of reference.

A muggers intent is first of all to intimidate and secondly to remove their victim of whatever valuables they may have.

If the tax burden is increased for the working and middle class something of value has been taken from them, and that would be their money.

But it’s about more than just having your wallet lifted, deregulating safety controls in the workplace poses risks.

Deregulating safety inspections and controls on the production of food and how it is labeled poses additional obvious risks.

Stripping environmental protection laws poses an assortment of threats so obvious as to present a clear and present danger.

This administration seems intent on legitimizing the mugging and purse snatching of the general public while exempting the wealthy and their corporate cronies with executive orders being their weapon of choice.

I would like to think that people have a greater integrity and more sense than to be persuaded by cookies and coffee, or alternative facts and sound bites for that matter.

The clock is ticking related to DAPL regardless of what the outgoing administration may do.

The Republican agenda will amount to a feeding frenzy to undo all things Obama, and while I admit some things should at least be open to discussion any gains related to the environment are not.

I consider the pending Trump administration to be a looming disaster along the lines of a category five hurricane – a child playing with the loaded gun of presidential power being egged on by other children, a scenario that never ends well.

The rancor that exists between the parties is palpable and isn’t going away any time soon if ever – an inescapable reality.

It’s payback time and petty minds revel at the mere thought and opportunity – the former administration needs to be punished as do their supporters and what better time then when all three branches of government will be controlled by the same party?

Do I believe that everyone has a voice and the right to employ it? Absolutely, but I’m also a little bit amused by the cavalcade of “celebrities” the Democratic Party trots out as a part of their strategy.

Personally I’m not much interested in what such celebrities have to say as they venture forth from their wealth induced insulation – I may or may not agree with a position they take, but the mere fact that they employ celebrity has zero influence on me.

It’s going to be interesting following the bold statements by a number of them that they’re leaving the country if Trump is elected to see if they actually do – if so then catch you later Miley etal and no big loss.

It’s also interesting that George Clooney held a celebrity laden and big money private fundraiser for Hillary and when called on it said yes it was deplorable in the midst of issuing his personal mea culpa.

And that’s the underlying problem – perpetuating what is admittedly wrong, the attitude that somehow yet another wrong will serve to make things right.

Then you have the Koch brothers who having constructed their own personal Olympus seek to impose their will, their “vision”, that ultimately translates to one thing and one thing only – increasing their wealth and influence.

They were vocal in their disdain of Trump, now let’s see if they put their money where their mouth is following his election or buy cheap with an eye to future profits.

We’ve got a president elect awash in a history of personal bankruptcy, of stiffing people, what are the odds that he will bankrupt the economy and the nation?

Think advisors like his brood, Guiliani, Carson, Christie, and other equally out of touch misanthropists are capable of preventing such an occurrence?

If Carson becomes Surgeon General will rebuilding the infrastructure include pyramids to “store grain” as part of healthy dietary regimen? Perhaps distribute knives to children so they can attempt to stab others and maybe learn a little something about opening a person up?

If Guiliani becomes USAG will he have to prove he can even spell the word constitution?

What about Christie, will he head up the transportation department?

How about Hannibal Lector, Freddie Kruger, and Jason, will they get the call to serve? You know, there will be a lot of cabinet and diplomatic posts available.

How about Ivanka, maybe some high ranking trade negotiator position since she already has trade agreements with China to produce her “fashion” line, besides that dad can’t stop talking about how hot he thinks she is.

Nepotism, cronyism, and despotism on a grand scale – hey, at least half the country really has lost their f****** mind as an article sent to me proclaimed.

This Trump victory has some announcing it a victory against “elitists”?

Elitists …. really? How so? Are the disenfranchised or those struggling to make ends meet Elitists?

Are those who want equal opportunity, a decent living wage, affordable healthcare, and a burning desire to overturn the apple cart of trickle down economics that for over three decades has translated to trickle up economics Elitists?

Are those who want a clean environment for their children, quality air to breathe, safe water to drink, or food that hasn’t been poisoned Elitists?

I don’t think so, and I don’t believe anyone is capable of making that argument or sustaining it.

Conservatism – isn’t there an implication in the word that we should conserve resources not exploit them hastening their depletion as we destroy our environment?

How about the evangelicals who predicate every ignorance they come up with as being god’s will and a strict adherence to the “word” – doesn’t that imply they should be the “good stewards” of the environment as well? Or is it just about the thirty pieces of silver?

And what is this bastard doctrine they refer to as the “prosperity doctrine” that enriches the “prophets” and those “anointed” to spread the word as they perform fake healings, speaking in tongues as the spirit overtakes them, and “slaying” people in the spirit accompanied by a physical nudge and an expectation that the recipient either fall or be seen as some sort of heretic as they hide behind the separation of church and state running scam after scam?

What exactly is it that makes them conservative? Is it their Elitist arrogance?

How about politicians across the board, Wall Street, the banking industry, corporations and the bloated salaries their CEO’s undeservedly enjoy, are they elitists?

Does the fact that the substandard healthcare provided by IHS for indigenous people make us elitists?

Is a child who grows up on a diet of Chinese lead laden formula, powdered milk, powdered eggs, and never having enough an elitist, or is the child insulated by wealth who has thousands of dollars of toys, the best money can buy to eat, fur coats, and custom made shoes and clothes to wear to private high end schools the child of elitists?

Are wealth and elitism confined to only one political party or does it know no boundaries?

Elitists are everywhere, in our world they’re known as the AIM leadership and corrupt politicians who hold tribal office.

Elitists indeed as the poster boy for elitism prepares to enter office.

Elitist has become a meme, a word easy to toss about without really examining the facts, as such it’s value is finite depending solely on application and the realities.

Is the handwriting on the wall? Trump is surging vs Clinton and she’s beginning to look a little frazzled.

As I blogged previously if Hillary has to go up against Trump in the general election whether she should win or not she’s going to get savaged, and if Bill attempts to weigh in he’ll get his lunch handed to him if he’s anywhere but a well managed and carefully selective rally or speaking engagement.

Controlled and selected is nothing new to Hillary, the DNC and Debbie Wasserman Shultz have seen to that, but it will be an entirely different story in the general election and all the Queens horsemen and all the Queens men may not be able to put poor Hillary back together again.

Hillary’s got more cracks in her political veneer than the funerary wrappings of Tut, and when the dust begins to settle it ain’t going to be nothing nice.

She may win, but if so she will limp into the White House riding on the ass and logo of the DNC and super delegates who cast their lot prior to the first primary or caucus will have made of their party rather than the white horse of a champion for the people

But that’s politics, mainstream establishment politics, and make no mistake about it, Hillary Clinton is about as mainstream as they come inspite of whatever campaign rhetoric she adopts.

If ever there was a candidate with more political indebtedness, more shady ties, more questionable support for cronyism styled legislation I can’t think of who it might be.

An establishment candidate who can only be elected by an establishment electorate – and that’s what will be really sad, an establishment electorate claiming to be progressive reformers.

Environmental awareness has grown and as that awareness has increased so too the amount of pressure being brought to bear on corporations to loosen their strangle hold on the environment.

Not going to be an easy task taking on this global pandemic of corporate greed and their political cronies but it’s obvious there are alternative clean energy sources and no viable reason not to move in that direction unless of course greed, profit, and indifference have become viable reasons – it isn’t as though the technology doesn’t exist.

The handwriting has been on the wall for some time that fossil fuels and even the subtext of combustible fuels are ravaging not only the planet but the very air we breathe and the water we drink.

I recently read where Bayer has made an offer to buy Monsanto, now there’s a marriage that will be made made in hell that translates to one thing and one thing only, more of the same, more control, and more indifferent greed.

Potential pandemics like the Zika virus are difficult to deny, and yet there are those who will with the usual it’s some kind of Illumnati or government scheme, a virus created in a secret government lab.

The global corporate pandemic likewise has it’s share of “conspiracy” promoters who deny every proof that is before their eyes even as the planet undergoes an industrial age fueled climate change.

By and large such deniers are of the conservative flavor, the same group who have adopted trickle down economics and seem to be okay with wealth egregiously migrating to a few at the top.

If they believe that it’s obvious they may well still maintain the earth is flat and somewhere within the earth’s core there’s another world populated by dinosaurs and cave men and women – reality being secondary to fantasy, and in this country now await the coming of their messiah they call The Donald to make America great.

It’s too bad Earth doesn’t have a twin where they and their messiah could reign doing and denying as they will – a world they could trash and exploit and only they would have to suffer the consequences – a world where there would be only two classes of people, the haves and the have nots, the Morlocks and the Eloi……. unfortunately that isn’t the way of it the though.

Since posting the blog Doublethink and Newspeak = Doublespeak I’ve been thinking about and discussing Depression Era programs like the WPA.

Programs designed to put people back to work and address infrastructure needs.

My thought is that with the amount of money spent on foreign adventurism, unsustainable wars, and the billions spent on “nation building” in other countries ( some of which despise the U.S.) why not revive the WPA and address the same issues in this country?

Jobs would be created, poverty levels decline, foodstamp rolls reduced, and inevitably lead to an increase in consumer spending which in turn would lead to increased production.

Tell Jeb Bush to forget about his proposed one percenter centric tax plan and up the tax rate on them instead, directing that increased revenue to the new WPA and the national debt.

Let corporations know that if they want to export jobs then legislating a bill into law that would require them to pay the same wage to a foreign worker as they would here and provide similar benefits will be the way of it.

If that isn’t enough to make them strike camp and scurry home then impose a tariff on whatever they import just as a tariff exists on other imported goods.

That alone would increase jobs and revenue from taxation – doubtful any of this will ever occur though as politicians and government have their heads stuck so far up the nether regions of corporations, one percenters, and the banking industry they’d rather eat their shoe than act in the best interests of everyday people.

Such a suggestion will surely raise cries of foul and isolationism from those with a vested interest, but that would be far from the truth as the U.S. would continue to import and export, globalism doesn’t imply creating an employers market for a reduced number of jobs or driving wages down.

Nor should it sacrifice economic well being and the ability for workers to achieve and advance rather than remain stagnant or awash in debt.

At the very least this is something all those people who run around shouting USA, USA, or droningon about love it or leave should be thinking about.

If they love their country, it they’re the “patriot” they profess to be then it’s time to put up or shut up, to demand change, not just content themselves with partisanship or the rhetoric that emanates from the party of their choice.

Change – meaningful change and a government that represents those it’s pledged to serve …. now’s there’s a novel idea isn’t it?

Beneath the sheets political affiliations are left on the nightstand – beneath the sheets corporate and super pac money buy the same cronyism from Democrat, Republican, or Tea Partier.

Beneath the sheets it isn’t about sex trafficking per se but the pimping of an entire nation – every man, woman, and child of it not found among the privileged.

This article speaks to more than one painful truth, among them the level of corruption, cronyism, and nepotism that exists within too many tribal governments.

Mismanagement is often a euphemism for what amounts to outright theft – so the PR tribal government wanted to celebrate AIM’s murderous rampage at WK2 by marking a day as an anniversary celebration of “liberation”,a liberation that never took place.

So much so they even attempted to raise “donations” to the tune of $50,000 to facilitate the effort – what ensued was a celebration of common sense when the response amounted to a slap down.

$50,000 to “celebrate” murder and mayhem and yet no comparable effort to raise funds for a women’s shelter or to refrain from “mismanagement”.

$50,000 to flush down the toilet without a penny of it going to address the poverty existing on PR even while such poverty is a common talking point.

“Many victims have stopped reporting after finding no help is available. The actual number of domestic violence incidents may be double or triple,” Clausen said.

Actual numbers may be double or triple and begs the question why would an abused woman fail to report it?

The answer is obvious and it’s manifold in nature in view of the realities – realities that include threats, additional abuse, a dysfunctional tribal government, being ostracized, a spouse or partner who opts for the easy out and blames the woman for being raped, and nowhere to go.

An additional question is why isn’t every indigenous site on the net making this a focal point? Why they aren’t they at least editorially kicking ass and taking names?

Used to be a time when newspapers would list the names of “johns” – I’ve heard there were even billboards to that end.

I think ndn country could use a little of that – erect a billboard or two with the names of abusers and rapists, communally shame and shun them since it would be a violation of their “rights” under the colonial law tribal governments have fashioned themselves after to ban them.

Shunning, shaming, and banning are among the approaches that would have been taken under the “old ways” we like to talk about. Had a person abused or molested a child they would have been lucky to escape with their life, and among the majority of the nations raping a community member could well have led to the same response.

Put their names in bold print in newspapers, post flyers in neighborhoods like is required of sex offenders – identify these “warriors” in such a manner all would know.

Doesn’t sound like something real last Indians would do? Not politically correct?

I submit real last ndns don’t go around abusing or raping women or children – and I could give a rip about what is “politically correct”. I submit a warriors role is to provide, including a safe environment, and also to protect every woman and child among them.